100625 - Turbo: QuickLaunch is running older build/version, than what was last installed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode), defect)

Description

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Build ID:  2001-09-19-05-0.9.4
Reproducible: Always

Steps:
1. Install a daily branch build with QuickLaunch enabled.
2. Launch the browser, play for a while, notice bad UI elements, get another build.
3. Install another daily branch build, into a seperate directory

Results: It appears QuickLaunch is launching the older build, instead of the new
one I have installed. Why do I think this? Because it exhibits different
behavior, from between, the new build launched from the short cut on my desktop,
and the what looks like the previous build.

Note: This could affect people testing the QuickLaunch feature.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

Did you exit the program (including QuickLaunch) before running the installer? 
If not, did the installer fail to detect the running version?  How is
QuickLaunch running after the install?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->XP Apps. 

Comment 3

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Answer to Peter's questions:

1) Did you exit the program (including QuickLaunch) before running the
installer? - Yes.

2) If not, did the installer fail to detect the running version? - I think the
installer can detect between versions, like 6.0 and 6.1, but may be having
problems between intra-version detection of daily builds.

3) How is QuickLaunch running after the install? Selected, QuickLaunch to be on
in install dialogue.

Note: QuickLaunch also running after a reboot, irrespective if I exit or disable
it. Filed Bug 101144.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 89781, [rfe] make quick launch compare versions before using 
existing process.  That covers the case of using zip builds instead of 
installer builds, and would also be good for QA wanting to quickly switch 
between two different builds.

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

Not likely to affect the vast majority of nsbranch users: nsbranch-

Comment 6

[Paul Chen]

Trying to reproduce using 2001-10-22-06-trunk and 2001-10-29-06-trunk builds but
not having any success. I install 10-22-06 first, then 10-29-06 (in a different
folder) and don't have any mixups. If there's any other info on how to
reproduce, I'm all ears.

Comment 7

[Paul Chen]

Marking p3 and mozilla1.1, will move in once I can reproduce

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

-> default assignee

Comment 9

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 10

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

what is the reason we are futuring this one?

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

How many users have multiple builds?

Comment 12

[Peter Trudelle]

Even with multiple builds, this is difficult for developers to reproduce. 

Comment 13

[Worcester12345]

Quicklaunch is done based on: Bug 383161 – keep in memory (turbo mode?) for
faster startup not working

so this one should be WONTFIX I guess.

Comment 14

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Quicklaunch is done based on: Bug 383161 – keep in memory (turbo mode?) for
> faster startup not working
> 
> so this one should be WONTFIX I guess.

Which in turn is a duplicate of:  Bug 361682 -  Remove "turbo mode" from suiterunner builds

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> WONTFIX - turbo is gone after SM v1.1